An assessment of the E911 and dispatch operations in use across the Cape is under way. The county’s Regional Emergency Planning Committee received an overview from Intertech Associates, the firm hired to perform the assessment, April 15.

County Administrator Mark Zielinski told the county commissioners this week that the review is a look at all E911 police and fire dispatch operations, including those operated by individual towns, the sheriff’s office and those at Otis.

The assessment is aimed at determining the feasibility of a single centralized model with sub-regional models and possible alternative configurations.

The Cape’s E911 system was implemented in the early 1990s, with towns and fire departments choosing at what level to participate. The Town of Barnstable’s police department takes in all of the 911 calls made for police and fire services, which may then be touted to individual fire departments or to the sheriff’s operations for medical calls.

The initial phase will be a data collection and benchmarking with all dispatching operations, which is expected to be completed by the end of May.

The evaluation will also look at how the OpenCape project, which will connect all municipalities and departments to a fiber optics network, may facilitate a new system.

The schedule outlined for the review has recommendations and options being presented in September.